Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The shelter of the One's feet carries us across the ocean of the world.
The One's sweet Word is the unstruck music, a melody that plays with no hand to play it.
Taking shelter with the One is like being carried across a wide ocean.
Har charan saran taran saagar — the shelter of the One's feet carries us over the world-ocean. That ocean is life, with all its big waves. You do not have to swim it alone. The picture stays hopeful: someone is carrying you across.
The second half is about sound. Dhun anhataa means the "unstruck" music. Most sounds happen when one thing hits another, like a stick on a drum. This music has no drumstick. It is a melody heard inside, always playing.
It is a little like the soft hum of a house that you only notice when everything goes quiet. A few songs earlier in this raag, a Partaal — a song whose rhythm keeps changing — spoke of this same inner music.
What is a sound or song that makes you feel carried and safe?
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